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Mitchell, T. D., & Donahue, D. M. (2009). I do more service in this class than I ever do at my site”: Paying attention to the reflections of students of color in service-learning. The future of service-learning: New solutions for sustaining and improving practice, 172-190.

A powerful article about students of color's experience in service learning classrooms paying paticular attention to how racial conciousness shapes service-learners experience.

This chapter discusses student resistence through the lenses of a cognitive developmental theory of self-authorship and critical whiteness in the context of a SL course taught as a critical pedagogy. The 3 profiles of student resistence are: "the good volunteer", "the politely frustrated volunteer", and "the active resister". It suggests some strategies for engaging these types of students.